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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Teacher
Must
Invest
Coaching
Teachers
Coaches
Pay
Teaching
Tomorrow

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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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